What is a tragic hero’s character flaw called? Hamartia
What is saying something that can be interpreted more than one way called? Equivocation
What are the four humors? Sanguine Choleric Melancholic Phlagmatic
What are the four humors? or blood black bile yellow bile phlegm
What does Duncan have more of? blood or sanguine
What does having more, but not too much, blood mean? The person is a nice person.
What is Banquo’s reaction to the witches’ predictions? He is nervous that the witches might be attempting to harm Macbeth and him.
What does Lady Macbeth worry that Macbeth has too much of before he kills Duncan? Kindness
What does Lady Macbeth do to the grooms to make them sleep? Drugs them
Who does Macbeth feel he has killed the king for? Banquo’s sons
How does Macbeth convince the murderers to kill Banquo? He blames their poverty on Banquo
Who sends a messenger to warn Lady Macduff? Lady Macbeth
What is unrhymed iambic pentameter? Blank verse
What is everyday speech? Prose
What is it called when two lines of verse rhyme at the end? a couplet
What rhythm and meter do the witches speak in? trochaic tetrameter
What specifically did Macbeth do that makes him a war hero (but that also shows his propensity for violence)? cuts a man from his bowels to his neck, cuts his head off, and puts the head on a spike
What does Macbeth compare life to after his wife dies? a walking shadow a brief candle an actor onstage a tale told by an idiot
What metaphor does Macduff use to say the king is dead? The Lord’s anointed temple was broken and the life stolen from it
Why is the metaphor Macduff uses to say the king is dead significant? It demonstrates Duncan’s goodness and rightful place as king
What is the triple purpose of the porter’s speech? Comic relief, establish equivocation, give Macbeths time to clean up
What is emotional purging called? Catharsis
The turning point from good fortune to bad is called peripeteia
Macbeth’s hands will turn the ocean red with blood… hyperbole
Macbeth’s hamartia is… vaulting ambition
“’Twas a rough night…” understatement
When Macduff hears of his wife and childen’s murder and he says, “I must also feel it as a man. / I cannot but remember such things were / That were most precious to me,” his words and feelings contrast Macbeth’s when he hears about his wife’s death. foil
Macduff does not want to tell Lady Macbeth about Duncan’s murder because it would harm her “woman’s ear.” irony
One person speaking on stage with multiple people also on stage monologue
One person speaking who is alone on stage soliloquy
The audience knows that Macbeth will be named Thane of Cawdor before Macbeth knows it. dramatic irony
Duncan is king of Scotland
Scotland is at war with Norway
Malcolm flees to England
Donalbain flees to Ireland
Three major examples of equivocation in Macbeth are… the porter’s scene Macbeth’s interpretation of the witches’ prophecies “look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it”
Disturbances of nature following Duncan’s murder are… owl shrieking and crickets crying chimneys blown over earthquake solar eclipse owl killing a hawk Duncan’s horses eating each other Macbeth not sleeping Lady Macbeth sleepwalking